The head of the controversial church is trying to evade a child sex trafficking suit, lawyers allege.
Safe Haven prioritizes your needs with flexible and individuated substance abuse treatment, specifically opioid & alcohol addiction.In the suit, Gawain Baxter said he was often “sleep-deprived, given inadequate time to eat, and verbally abused by his adult supervisors.” Laura
similar treatment, including being “screamed at abusively” by superiors and “confined” to a small, hot engine room for three days as a punishment.Daily BeastParis also alleges physical and sexual abuse of children was common, and that she “walked in on an adult Sea Org member, who was responsible for the children, masturbating on a boy’s bed.
In the amended complaint, Paris says that when she was 12, her Sea Org superior “ordered her” into a room with him to confess the “crimes” she had committed—these being “alleged sexual thoughts she had.” When she branded him a “pervert,” she was punished with “lower conditions” for a period of six months.“Miscavige cannot be permitted to continue his gamesmanship,” Neil Glazer, an attorney for one of the plaintiffs,in legal documents filed last month.
As Masterson’s accusers have also alleged, the Baxters and Paris say they’ve been surveilled by Scientology officials since distancing themselves from the institution and then later speaking out against it.Meanwhile, a Scientology spokesperson told TMZ, “The lawsuit is nothing but a money shakedown. The allegations are scurrilous, ridiculous and blatantly false. The lawsuit is both a sham and a scam.
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